Author name: Pierson W

Fiction

My Aunt Gave Me Buckteeth

You Son of a Witch! Quick Stats: 1,493 Words Time to Read: 6–9 Min­utes At sev­en years old, and in the span of three morn­ings, I lost my first two teeth, and grew in a pair of buck teeth. It all start­ed with that first morn­ing, when I walked into the kitchen. It smelled like […]

Essays

Walmart Strangers: A Micro-Essay Reflecting on Pleasant Encounters

Super­store Small Talk Gone Right One day this past semes­ter, I had a delight­ful con­ver­sa­tion with a stranger at Wal­mart. I’d gone to pick up print­er ink. As it hap­pened, this was my first time shop­ping for print­er ink. Did you know they lock print­er ink behind glass cab­i­nets? I didn’t. Thanks for read­ing Pen

Essays

The Time I went Book Hauling in Tupelo, Ms: A Flash Essay

A Book Haul Sto­ry A few weeks ago I was on a pro­duc­tiv­i­ty high after being on a hot streak for read­ing and writ­ing every day—thank you col­lege finals for screw­ing that up. Along with this benev­o­lent rush came a book-shop­ping fer­vor where my eyes got big­ger than my stom­ach. For ref­er­ence on how “fil­l­able”

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